You, me, everybody

Fools. Internet (and blogging in particular) is of course a tremendous opportunity to express and share ideas and perspectives. However, despite all the media hypes, neither me, nor you, nor any other of the bits and bytes of the entire cyberspace define what's high on the world agenda. My question for the end of the year is: who do you think was the person of 2006?

Here are my answers:

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah. Like him or not, he is one of the most influential leaders of the Middle East and the entire Islamic world, and probably the most charismatic person of our days (after Fidel Castro and late John Paul II).

Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria, the new president of Chile. A Socialist woman and a former victim of the Pinochet military junta.

I would like to remember that Augusto Pinochet Ugarte and Oriana Fallaci finally died this year, so 2006 wasn't so bad after all.